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LITERATURE THEORY

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Yaremi was economically self – reliant and assertive . Most men in Kufi resented her as they expected their women to always play second fiddle or be in a subordinate position to them. Like other widows in Kufi , Yaremi was expected to remarry by all means . Radeke , Fayoyin and Dedewe had gone through the cap picking ceremony where they chose new men to replace their deceased husbands.

Yaremi resisted all pressure and chose to remain unmarried . She demonstrated her resolve by turning down proposals from three suitors and refusing to pick up a cap at the cap picking ceremony organised to facilitate her remarriage . As a result , the village elders threatened to confiscate her husband ’ s property and banish her from the village. The story ends with Yaremi taking off her widowhood garment and expressing a renewed determination to remain in Kufi in spite of all odds .

In other Words Yaremi is the novel ’ s protagonist and heroine . She is Ajumobi ’s widow.

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Manfred ’ s foil, he constantly urges the prince to renounce his thirst for worldly power and to take up faith . Jerome sees through Manfred ’ s attempts to manipulate him and attempts to deceive Manfred to protect Isabella . When this results in Theodore ’ s death sentence , it sets in a motion a series of events in which Jerome sees a mark on Theodore’ s shoulder , realizes that Theodore is his long lost son , and reveals his own past identity as the Count of Falconara . After Manfred kills

Matilda , Jerome reveals that Theodore has a stronger claim to the throne than

Frederic , because Jerome ’ s wife ( Theodore ’s mother ) was Alfonso’ s daughter . Throughout the story , Jerome acts as a true man of faith and goodness, working to protect others and counseling against greed and lust .

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